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Wish it were true. Sigh.

I was aware of the whole drama when it happened. Anduril employs one developer and contributes money. So what? I have nothing against Anduril just because they make some weapons... Si vis pacem, para bellum. I dislike the anti-Chinese stance by its CEO to secure government contracts, though.

Not true. I have a mini-guide to install FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD multi-boot here: https://github.com/ricardobranco777/howtos/blob/master/BSD/Multiboot.md Last weekend I repeated the whole process on a VM so I could screenshot the whole thing to enhance it in a blog post. I have a mini-PC...

Not true. I think you were just repeating outdated misinformation from the Fediverse. A simple Google search is enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NixOS#Community_controversy

Not true.

If you're on headless setup or if you want to do it remotely you can also take advantage of the BootNext UEFI feature. On FreeBSD you can run efibootmgr as root and then `efibootmgr -n -b $entry`. You can get the entry number like this: $ sudo efibootmgr Boot to FW : false BootCurrent: 0000...

It may be worse: - CVE inflation due to Greg assigning them to trivial commits. - Multiple cases of actual vulnerabilities that don't get assigned a CVE. - The scores are completely bogus and don't reflect the actual impact. - The commit messages for the fixes obfuscate the real thing. - The...

Agree, but most programming is done to solve real-world tasks and there's no virtue in making them works of art. The uncomfortable truth is that LLMs code better than the average programmer. We should adapt and relate to that reality and consider the worst-case scenarios. Burying the head in...

AI is a powerful tool on the right hands. Curious nobody mentioned NextBSD yet: https://nextbsd.org Another BSD project leveraging AI: https://www.5bsd.org

Bash because it lets me do stuff like `cp /etc/passwd{,.bak}`, ranges like {1..3}, lists and associative arrays. Only for root I leave the default Korn shell, C shell, etc. because it's tied to base.

I plan to read on finance & economics, a subject I dismissed in my teens as "materialistic". I'll eventually go back to Carlos Castaneda, Emil Cioran, Borges, Ramos Sucre, Dostoevsky, Guy de Maupassant, etc. One thing is certain: I won't read on political science ever again. Also, I was...

The good things about Mastodon: - There's no endless scroll. - You can actually control your feed. I removed my account because: - It's an echo chamber for people trying to out-left each other. A rage machine. A wannabe Communist bar. - Lots of accounts mirror their content on X anyway.

The issue is known and is being worked on: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2721#issuecomment-5042684167

Back to the topic: I think the problem is not so much the language but the ecosystem. For Bcachefs in Linux, which will be rewritten in Rust, you'll need a specific version and apparently this needs to have both Clang & GCC installed. It must be a bootstrapping and maintenance nightmare...

They should migrate to the one based on LLVM like FreeBSD did. That CoC is based on the Contributor Covenant created by the same person who penned the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto. I have a deep distrust of all kinds of anti-meritocracy postures. PDVSA in Venezuela was explicitly meritocratic...

It's the ideal language for LLMs because it's anal about everything.

It has plenty of spaces like LWN. It also had Groklaw in the past when they had the water in the neck. And in the worst case scenario it wouldn't be hard to fix. We geeks should discuss geek stuff and leave lawyer stuff to lawyers.

The Linux Foundation has the Open Invention Network with lots of companies pledged not to sue for patents. They must have the same protection wrt licenses that only apply to original code anyway. It's not like Linus suddenly allowed vibe-coding in the kernel. Google also provides legal...

Technical lists are not the best place for philosophical & ethical discussions that by their very nature are endless, and this is considered a feature and not a bug. There's no single outcome that will satisfy everyone and I think that Linus' verdict is the right one because it will benefit the...

Colin Percival & Linus Torvalds disagree. They have found bugs that were decades old and pieced together exploits in novel ways. There's a huge asymmetric disadvantage for defensive security right now. It's irresponsible not to use LLMs to level the playing field.